LOS ANGELES and DALLAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockbuster Inc.
(NYSE: BBI) and Entertainment Weekly magazine will present the Seventh Annual
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, airing on Wednesday, April 11 (8 p.m. -
10 p.m. ET/PT) on FOX.
The show will be taped on Tuesday, April 10 at the Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles.
The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards is one of the world's largest
publicly-voted awards shows honoring the lead and supporting actors and
actresses in the top-performing movies of 2000, as well as music artists based
on the top-selling albums for 2000, as determined by Baseline.Hollywood.com.
Millions of Blockbuster customers will have the opportunity to cast their
votes for their favorite actors, actresses and musicians beginning Jan. 30.
Voting will take place in more than 5,000 participating U.S. Blockbuster
stores, as well as in more than 1,400 stores in 14 countries. Voting will
also be accessible to fans via blockbusterawards.com and will end on Feb. 19.
Veteran television producer Ken Ehrlich ("The Grammy Awards," "The Emmy
Awards," "VH1 Honors") leads the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards production
team for the seventh consecutive year. Coke, MCI WorldCom, Colgate Total Plus
Whitening, America Online and Sony are this year's sponsors.
Blockbuster Inc. is a publicly traded subsidiary of Viacom Inc.
(NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) and is the world's leading renter of videos, DVDs, and
video games with approximately 7,500 stores throughout the Americas, Europe,
Asia and Australia. The company may be accessed internationally at
blockbuster.com. Viacom is the No. 1 platform in the world for advertisers,
with preeminent positions in broadcast and cable television, radio, outdoor
advertising, and online. With programming that appeals to audiences in every
demographic category across virtually all media, the company is a leader in
the creation, promotion, and distribution of entertainment, news, sports, and
music. Viacom's well-known brands include CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1,
Paramount Pictures, Infinity Broadcasting, UPN, TNN, CMT, Showtime, and Simon
& Schuster. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at
www.viacom.com.
Entertainment Weekly, a winner of three National Magazine Awards (for
General Excellence, Design, and Special Interests) is America's leading
consumer magazine of entertainment and popular culture. The magazine is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., a division of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX),
and has a guaranteed circulation rate base of 1.5 million reaching an audience
of over eight million readers. EW.com (www.ew.com) is Entertainment Weekly's
web site, which offers daily entertainment news, critical reviews, message
boards, a daily entertainment quiz and other interactive sections, as well as
a search engine for every back issue of the magazine. EW.com also provides
audio-visual supplements to special issues of Entertainment Weekly, as well as
site-exclusive multimedia features, including movie and television previews,
and comprehensive guides to major entertainment events.

SOURCE Blockbuster Inc., Entertainment Weekly Magazine and FOX

LOS ANGELES and DALLAS, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockbuster Inc.
(NYSE: BBI) and Entertainment Weekly magazine will present the Seventh Annual
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, airing on Wednesday, April 11 (8 p.m. -
10 p.m. ET/PT) on FOX.
The show will be taped on Tuesday, April 10 at the Shrine Auditorium in
Los Angeles.
The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards is one of the world's largest
publicly-voted awards shows honoring the lead and supporting actors and
actresses in the top-performing movies of 2000, as well as music artists based
on the top-selling albums for 2000, as determined by Baseline.Hollywood.com.
Millions of Blockbuster customers will have the opportunity to cast their
votes for their favorite actors, actresses and musicians beginning Jan. 30.
Voting will take place in more than 5,000 participating U.S. Blockbuster
stores, as well as in more than 1,400 stores in 14 countries. Voting will
also be accessible to fans via blockbusterawards.com and will end on Feb. 19.
Veteran television producer Ken Ehrlich ("The Grammy Awards," "The Emmy
Awards," "VH1 Honors") leads the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards production
team for the seventh consecutive year. Coke, MCI WorldCom, Colgate Total Plus
Whitening, America Online and Sony are this year's sponsors.
Blockbuster Inc. is a publicly traded subsidiary of Viacom Inc.
(NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) and is the world's leading renter of videos, DVDs, and
video games with approximately 7,500 stores throughout the Americas, Europe,
Asia and Australia. The company may be accessed internationally at
blockbuster.com. Viacom is the No. 1 platform in the world for advertisers,
with preeminent positions in broadcast and cable television, radio, outdoor
advertising, and online. With programming that appeals to audiences in every
demographic category across virtually all media, the company is a leader in
the creation, promotion, and distribution of entertainment, news, sports, and
music. Viacom's well-known brands include CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1,
Paramount Pictures, Infinity Broadcasting, UPN, TNN, CMT, Showtime, and Simon
& Schuster. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at
www.viacom.com.
Entertainment Weekly, a winner of three National Magazine Awards (for
General Excellence, Design, and Special Interests) is America's leading
consumer magazine of entertainment and popular culture. The magazine is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., a division of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX),
and has a guaranteed circulation rate base of 1.5 million reaching an audience
of over eight million readers. EW.com (www.ew.com) is Entertainment Weekly's
web site, which offers daily entertainment news, critical reviews, message
boards, a daily entertainment quiz and other interactive sections, as well as
a search engine for every back issue of the magazine. EW.com also provides
audio-visual supplements to special issues of Entertainment Weekly, as well as
site-exclusive multimedia features, including movie and television previews,
and comprehensive guides to major entertainment events.
SOURCE Blockbuster Inc., Entertainment Weekly Magazine and FOX